Berryville woman dies in I-66 crash Wednesday morning

FAUQUIER – A Berryville woman, Judy C. Ravenscroft, 52, died Wednesday morning after a crash with a box truck on Interstate 66 in Fauquier County, according to the Virginia State Police.

VSP spokeswoman Corrine Geller said the crash occurred Wednesday morning around 8:15 a.m. at the 36-mile marker.

A Ford Focus and a Ford F-350 pickup truck with a trailer were both stopped on the right shoulder of westbound I-66. The pickup truck’s trailer had blown a tire; it is unclear why the Focus was on the shoulder, Ms. Geller said. The Focus then started backing down the shoulder, and somehow drifted into the westbound travel lane.

That’s when a box truck hit the car from the back, causing it to slam into a guardrail off the right shoulder. The box truck also struck the pickup truck and then overturned on the roadway.

The Ford Focus driver, Ms. Ravenscroft, was flown to a hospital where she later died. She was  wearing a seat belt when the crash occurred, Geller said.

The box truck driver, a 55-year-old Dumfries man, suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.

No one in the pickup truck was injured.

The crash closed down a segment of I-66 between Haymarket and The Plains from about 8:15 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The accident remains under investigation by Trooper D.M. Garasimowicz.